New study finds that the nutritional value of prey within a single species can widely vary, offering key insights for food web dynamics and ecosystem change The hunt is on and a predator finally zeroes in on its prey. The animal consumes the nutritious meal and moves on to forage for its next target. But how much prey does a predator need to consume? Following a period of massive starvation among animals living along the California coast, University of California…
Crab lovers shouldn't worry, researchers say, because the pond-raised crabs look and taste just like their ocean-raised brethren.North Carolina's native blue…
Plowing, sowing, spreading fertilizer, harvesting – The days are gone when farmers labored from dawn to dusk in the fields. Today’s modern farmer spends a…
BBSRC-funded scientists at Cardiff University, led by Dr Bill Symondson and performed in the laboratory by postdoctoral scientist Dr Andrew King and…
Their model not only reaches some interesting conclusions, but also allows the researchers to make a prediction as to what the system will do over time.Glen…
The research, by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), focused on California wildfires in 2007, finding that they repeatedly…
Now, fifty years later, the black and white photographs taken by these scientists are of immense value in trying to understand the impacts of climate change on…
This optimistic scenario is coming closer to reality as new technologies such as biomimetics and Dye Sensitized solar Cells (DSCs) emerge with great promise…
Reuse of agricultural drainage water (DW) for irrigation is one of the few on-farm water management options available to growers on the west side of…
Thanks to efforts by scientists in a Virginia Tech-led program, the papaya mealybug — an emerging threat from India to Indonesia — is being identified and…
A study published in the latest issue of Environmental Geology now confirms that the major source of contamination in the upper part of the aquifer is of…
The findings by scientists at the University of East Anglia (UEA) in the UK and Penn State University and the University of Arkansas in the US, will be…
Although the biological diversity of these deep biosphere microorganisms may surpass that of the more familiar surface biosphere, much about them is still…
New research suggests that the plateau edge might have been preserved for thousands of years by ice during glacial advances and by glacial debris deposited at…
Their conclusion is based on an analysis of microwave brightness temperature recorded by the Special Sensor Microwave Imager (SSM/I) onboard the F13 satellite.“Having such extreme melting so far north, where it is usually colder than the southern regions is extremely interesting,” Professor Tedesco said. “In 2007, the record occurred in southern Greenland, mostly at high elevation areas where in 2008 extreme snowmelt occurred along the northern coast.”…
For many years, conventional wisdom held that tropical plant and animal species remained unaffected by global warming. However, an article co-authored by…
The study, which appears in the October 2008 issue of the journal Western North American Naturalist, says that through dam building, beavers create ponds and…
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